International Business Machines Corporation
Image recognition combined with personal assistants for item recovery

Abstract:

According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for using a virtual assistant and electronic devices to find lost objects is provided. The present invention may include identifying one or more candidate items corresponding with one or more user-identified lost items within captured images such as real-time or archived camera feeds within the area where the item was lost; identifying secondary items with a spatial relationship to the candidate items; communicating, to a user, location information associated with the one or more candidate items by reference to the secondary items based on the identifying.